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The Additional Protocols at 40
… Cold War arms race and the development of new weapons technologies brought new realities to … Another ongoing discussion is the issue of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons were the subject of difficult …
Young Humanitarian Journalists Competition 2022
… (yymmdd)_article title e.g.: 220824_YouthBanNuclearWeapons.docx No identifying information of … and 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Entries in this …
ICRC and Parliaments: the fruitful collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union
… the ground, in particular by those who bear weapons. Here again, you as parliamentarians, … 92 Private military and security companies 93 Nuclear weapons 95 Part 4: Model instruments … containing dangerous forces (e.g. dams and nuclear power stations). IHL sets out a number …
Humanitarian action and the pursuit of peace: Speech on the anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize
… But with the arrival of modern warfare and weapons of mass destruction – and the … – this attitude no longer held up. The use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at … 1962 marked a turning point. The push for nuclear disarmament after 1945 is well known. …
Young Humanitarian Journalists Competition 2021 gets rolling
… issues of concern, from the rise in global nuclear tensions to the events unfolding in … "International humanitarian law (IHL): The nuclear ban treaty". For the first theme, … on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), a topic of major interest to …
Global gathering to shape future of world’s largest humanitarian movement
… access to critical humanitarian services. Nuclear weapons – working towards their elimination … this year of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was a landmark achievement. …
A humanitarian perspective on military AI
… issues, including on the impact of weapons and current disarmament initiatives. … used to direct decision-making on the use of nuclear weapons, potentially exacerbating the risks of use of nuclear weapons with the catastrophic …
“Lest the ghosts of Guernica keep haunting us…”
… one war too late. Today, even the threat of a nuclear war, and the total destruction of … towards achieving the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons suddenly seems to have become a race …
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